The Bridge application ships with Photoshop and is aptly named because it serves as a conduit among all the programs in the
Adobe Creative Suite. In Chapter 2, you learned how to use Bridge to synchronize the color settings for the whole Creative Suite. With its large thumbnail previews
of files from Adobe Creative Suite applications, Bridge is also the best vehicle for opening files—plus it offers many other
useful features.A In Bridge you can display, arrange, rate, and sort thumbnails; organize thumbnails into collapsible stacks;★ rate or
reject images; assign keywords to files; use a loupe to examine details on any image thumbnail; and view data (metadata) about
any image, such as the shooting conditions a camera recorded into a digital photo.★ You don’t need to learn everything in
this chapter at once. Master the basics in the first half of the chapter, then explore other features at your leisure.